Delivery Manager 12 Month Fixed Term Contract
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: London Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1M 6HA
Contract type: Secondment
Business area: Sainsbury's Tech
Closing date: 01 August 2025
Requisition ID: 30665030
We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. Think about the scale it takes for us to feed the nation. The level of data, transactions and variety it involves. Then you’ll realise that ours is a modern software engineering environment because it has to be. We’ve made serious investment into a Tech Academy and into setting standards and principles. We iterate, learn, experiment and push ways of working such as Agile, Scrum and XP. So you can look forward to awesome opportunities in everything from AI to reusable tech.
Sainsburys Tech - Delivery Manager C5 - 12 Month Fixed Term Contract Opportunity
Why join us
When you join Sainsbury's Tech as a Delivery Manager, you become part of a dynamic, multi-channel, multi-brand company that serves millions of customers each day. Our commitment to innovation and cutting-edge technology means you'll be working with the most exciting data set in the UK, developing scalable and high-performance products that enhance the shopping experience for millions of people. In an inclusive and agile environment, you'll have the freedom to explore your curiosity, experiment with ideas, and tackle real-world challenges. Your contributions and creations will have a tangible impact on our customers and the broader organisation. With the opportunity to work collaboratively with talented teams and renowned technology partners, joining us means embracing a culture of constant learning and growth, all while delivering value at pace and making a difference in the retail industry.
What you'll do
As a Delivery Manager at Sainsbury's Tech, you will take on a pivotal role in leading and supporting the delivery of transformational work across teams and the broader organisation. Your primary focus will be on planning, coordinating, and driving forward the delivery of changes and enhancements to our products, ensuring timely and effective delivery of value. Working closely with engineer managers, you will be responsible for orchestrating the delivery across multiple engineering teams to achieve key business outcomes. This will involve partnering with stakeholders, utilising appropriate delivery methodologies, and managing deployment schedules, while actively identifying and mitigating risks and issues. Additionally, you will contribute to the continuous improvement of our delivery practises and play a role in building relationships and communication channels across cross-functional teams and external partners. Overall, your ability to navigate complexity, drive results, and foster collaboration will be essential in shaping the successful delivery of our projects and initiatives.
This role is looking to recruit an experienced Delivery Manager on a 12 month FTC with a passion for all things Digital. You'll be working in our Food portfolio helping drive us towards being truly first choice for food. You'll be working to deliver exciting digital propositions into our online sales channels and into our store network, as such experience within a digital landscape and rollout our technical changes into stores is mandatory for this role.
Who you are
As a Delivery Manager at Sainsbury's, you are an experienced and dynamic professional who excels in driving forward and delivering transformational changes and enhancements to our products. With a strong understanding and certification in Agile methodology, you have a proven track record in software and Agile project delivery, effectively coordinating and leading multiple engineering teams to achieve key business outcomes. Your exceptional communication skills enable you to build strong relationships with cross-functional teams, stakeholders, and third-party partners, ensuring effective collaboration and successful project delivery. With your strong people skills and ability to navigate complexity and ambiguity, you inspire and motivate others, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and driving innovation within the organisation.
Essential Criteria:
- Extensive experience as a Project/Delivery Manager, supporting and managing the delivery of complex multi-team initiatives within a technical landscape and matrix organisation including one or more technical domain:
- Software Development incl. Web & Apps
- Hardware and Devices
- Application Development
- Cloud & Infrastructure
- Networks/Connectivity
- Experience delivering change within a regulated & compliant technical landscape & into business operations – partnering with Legal, regulatory, compliance, privacy, information security, architecture & service teams.
- Highly proficient in building delivery plans, status tracking & reporting, RAIDD within a company-wide governance framework.
- Proven experience in managing technical & business stakeholders to deliver key change activities across multiple teams concurrently, such as task planning, workforce planning, system integration, quality management and testing, data migration, service transition, post implementation review, value delivery management and project / change budgets.
- Highly effective at developing and maintaining strong working relationships with 3rd party technology partners/vendors.
- Certifications - at least one of the below:
- Project/Program management frameworks: PMBOK, APM, PRINCE2 or similar
- Agile PM, SAFe Release Train Engineer / SAFe Agilist or similar
We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer, so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new - whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them: Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave.
Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to get 10% off at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat after 4 weeks. This increases to 15% off at Sainsbury’s every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every pay day. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 20% of salary, depending on how we perform.
Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy additional holiday. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, interest free car loan of up to £10k, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, pay advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an Employee Assistance Programme, you will also be eligible for private healthcare too.
Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).
